Research Catalog

Title

The gift of fear : survival signals that protect us from violence / Gavin de Becker.

Author

De Becker, Gavin

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1997.

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Details

Description

viii, 334 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.

Subject

• Violence > Psychological aspects
• Victims of crimes > Psychology
• Women > Crimes against
• Violent crimes > Psychological aspects
• Fear
• Intuition
• Fear of crime
• Crime prevention
• Victims of violent crimes > Psychology
• Women > Crimes against > Prevention
• Crime Victims > psychology
• Psychology, Social
• Violence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-324) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the presence of danger -- The technology of intuition -- The academy of prediction -- Survival signals -- Imperfect strangers -- High-stakes predictions -- Promises to kill (understanding threats) -- Persistence, persistence (dealing with people who refuse to let go) -- Occupational hazards (violence in the workplace) -- Intimate enemies (domestic violence) -- "I was trying to let him down easy" (date stalking) -- Fear of children (violent children) -- Better to be wanted by the police than not to be wanted at all (attacks against public figures) -- Extreme hazards -- The gift of fear.

ISBN

0316235024

LCCN

^^^96051051^//r97

OCLC

• 36143575
• SCSB-9953405

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library